Sets and integration An outline of the development

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Springer Science & Business Media, 6 de des. 2012 - 162 pàgines
The present text resulted from lectures given by the authors at the Rijks Universiteit at Utrecht. These lectures were part of a series on 'History of Contemporary Mathematics'. The need for such an enterprise was generally felt, since the curriculum at many universities is designed to suit an efficient treatment of advanced subjects rather than to reflect the development of notions and techniques. As it is very likely that this trend will continue, we decided to offer lectures of a less technical nature to provide students and interested listeners with a survey of the history of topics in our present-day mathematics. We consider it very useful for a mathematician to have an acquaintance with the history of the development of his subject, especially in the nineteenth century where the germs of many of modern disciplines can be found. Our attention has therefore been mainly directed to relatively young developments. In the lectures we tried to stay clear of both oversimplification and extreme technicality. The result is a text, that should not cause difficulties to a reader with a working knowledge of mathematics. The developments sketched in this book are fundamental for many areas in mathematics and the notions considered are crucial almost everywhere. The book may be most useful, in particular, for those teaching mathematics.

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The exploration of the new continent
7
The paradoxes
21
Zermelo takes over
34
Making inconsistent sets respectable
45
The consistency of the axiom of choice and the continuum hypothesis
52
Large cardinals
63
Introduction the period before Riemann
77
Riemann Lebesgue real functions
91
Modern theory of the integral
133
Bibliography
149
Index
155
List of Mathematicians
161
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